Sentence examples for bleak black from inspiring English sources

"A Serious Man," like "Burn After Reading," is in their bleak, black, belittling mode, and it's hell to sit through.

I expect this bleak, black crowd-pleaser (yep) will barge its way onto Broadway sooner rather than later.

Shrigley's bleak, black humour and sophisticated grimness make you wonder about the mind that made this work – crazy guy, crazy art, you think.

I think if you don't get my sense of humour, which is pretty much New York bleak, black humour, and in many ways also English humour, then you just don't get my writing.

The teen­agers break up, inevitably, and Niffer sinks back into the "bleak, black miasma" of her depression, but Hannah remains at her post, taking care of the sickly infant.

Bleak, black desolation".

Graeme Souness and Sammy Lee appeared in Alan Bleasdale's bleak, black-humoured television drama 'Boys From The Blackstuff' in 1982.

When the restaurant opened, it had a cool Scandinavian feel with polished floors, white walls and bleak black-and-white photographs of Austrian castles by Alexander Vethers.

This elegant Daphne du Maurier costume drama is heavy on atmosphere, with a melodramatic score and romantically bleak black-and-white Cornwall scenery.

When the store opened last month, it was packed with people in town for Berlin's fashion week, who gladly escaped the city's bleak, black-and-white winterscape to celebrate in the shop's warm, color happy interiors.

This year, for instance, Alexander Payne's Nebraska - a bleak black-and-white drama about a doomed dreamer in recession-hit America - finds itself bracketed in the comedy/musical section.